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August 9, 2006
A door falls off a Brazilian jet, and crashes next to a supermarket shortly after departure from Sao Paulo. The TAM airplane was able to land safely, despite the gaping hole. None of the 79 passengers on the Fokker 100 plane were injured.
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July 27, 2006
Topics underwater, weird, nick, poker, airplane, prince, canada, chicago, texas, ice, play, island, london, free and game
As part of InterPoker. com's Extreme Poker series novice players and one professional battled it out 15,000-ft. off the ground. Losers of the game would have to parachute themselves out of an airplane. The players are the winners of Extreme Poker's online tournaments to play Texas Hold 'em in weird settings. The first of the series was played underwater and the second was played on a polar ice cap in Finland.
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July 18, 2006
Students in Japan have taken to the sky in quite an unlikely contraption. A group of students from the Tokyo Institute of Technology flew in a plane powered only by household batteries.
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July 16, 2006
One Malaysian couple has decided to take their love to the clouds as a way to celebrate their 37th wedding anniversary. Cheah Sum Beng, 64, and wife Choo Kit Har, 61, decided to make the moment memorable by doing their very first parachute jump together.
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June 3, 2006
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